Career Growth for Working Women | Career Advancement, Visibility, Promotion, Raises

Many women spend years building successful careers.

They work hard.

Earn promotions.

Lead teams.

Reach goals they once only dreamed about.

But eventually many high-achieving women find themselves asking a new question:
What's next?

In this episode, Shannon sits down with former IBM Executive Vice President and Senior Partner Anouk Brumfield to discuss leadership, ambition, reinvention, and how success evolves throughout a career.

After more than 30 years at IBM leading global teams, major transformations, and billion-dollar portfolios, Anouk shares lessons learned about career growth, mentorship, sponsorship, burnout, purpose, and personal fulfillment.

In this episode:
✅ How family and early life experiences shape ambition
✅ The role mentorship and sponsorship play in career advancement
✅ Why high-achieving women need both internal and external mentors
✅ How success changes throughout different stages of life
✅ The difference between burnout and knowing it's time for a pivot
✅ Why self-awareness is critical for career growth
✅ How to recognize when you're no longer aligned with your purpose
✅ The importance of building your personal support network
✅ Why giving yourself grace is a leadership skill

Listen for practical advice for women navigating career transitions, leadership growth, and the question so many professionals eventually face: Am I still doing what I'm meant to be doing?

🔗 Connect with Anouk Brumfield

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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Let me tell you something.

Your manager isn't a mind reader.

And that's actually good news.

Because if your manager doesn't fully understand the leadership impact you're creating, it doesn't automatically mean you're being overlooked.

It may simply mean they haven't been given the full picture.

In this episode, Shannon explains why so many high-performing women unintentionally assume their managers see everything they contribute.

The reality is much different.

You experience every step of your work.

Your manager experiences snapshots.

That one shift changes everything.

In this episode you'll learn:
✔ Why managers naturally miss much of your daily impact
✔ The difference between activity and leadership impact
✔ How to prepare differently for one-on-one meetings
✔ Why leadership language matters
✔ The question to ask before every conversation with your manager
✔ Why communication is one of the greatest career advantages you can develop
✔ How to make your value easier to recognize without feeling like you're bragging

If you've ever wondered why your hard work isn't fully reflected in promotion conversations, this episode will help you see your career through a completely different lens.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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Many professionals believe that if they work hard, gain experience, and consistently deliver results, opportunities will naturally follow.

But today's job market doesn't always work that way.

In this episode, Shannon speaks with career coach, resume writer, and founder of Empower Career Studio Carrie Christiano about how hiring has evolved and why professionals need to think differently about visibility, networking, and career positioning.

Drawing from her background in recruiting, talent acquisition, and career coaching, Carrie shares what hiring managers are actually evaluating, how AI is changing both sides of the hiring process, and why building industry presence matters just as much as internal reputation.

In this episode:
✅ Why experience alone no longer guarantees visibility
✅ How AI is changing recruiting and hiring
✅ What hiring managers are actually looking for
✅ The difference between being qualified and being positioned
✅ Why networking is still one of the best career growth strategies
✅ How women can communicate value without sounding boastful
✅ The hidden job market most professionals never see
✅ Why relationship-building matters long before you need a new job
✅ How LinkedIn can support long-term career growth

Carrie also shares a simple challenge listeners can use this week to start leveraging AI more strategically in their careers.

🔗 Connect with Carria Christiano

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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Most of us think meetings are about updates, decisions, and action items.

But what if they're actually one of the biggest opportunities you have to shape your leadership reputation?

In this episode, Shannon shares why everyday meetings play a much bigger role in promotions than most women realize.

She explores the subtle habits that quietly keep high-performing women invisible and the small mindset shifts that help leadership experience their value more clearly.

If you've ever left a meeting replaying everything you said, waited until your idea was "perfect," or apologized before sharing your perspective, this episode is for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:
✔️ Why meetings are where leadership gets observed
✔️ The difference between being helpful and being influential
✔️ Why waiting for perfect ideas keeps women invisible
✔️ How apologizing before speaking weakens your message
✔️ Why reclaiming your place after being interrupted is a leadership skill
✔️ The hidden cost of volunteering for every follow-up task
✔️ How repeated meeting experiences shape your professional reputation
✔️ A simple strategy to prepare for every meeting with intention

Your goal isn't to become the loudest person in the room.

It's to make the value you already create easier for leadership to recognize.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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Have you ever looked around at work and wondered why you're the one constantly fixing problems that shouldn't belong to you?

In this episode of Career Growth for Working Women, Shannon sits down with leadership consultant and business strategist Eric Dingler to explore why so many capable women become the default problem-solvers inside organizations.

Drawing on nearly three decades of leadership experience, Eric explains how unclear expectations, poor delegation, and leadership blind spots often create gaps that high-performing women instinctively step in to fill.

The challenge?

Over time, those extra responsibilities can lead to burnout, resentment, stalled career growth, and an unhealthy pattern of carrying work that was never formally assigned.

In this episode we talk about: 

➡️ Why high-performing women become the default problem solver 

➡️ The hidden cost of carrying invisible responsibility 

➡️ How unclear expectations create workplace overwhelm 

➡️ Why resentment grows when communication doesn't happen 

➡️ Healthy ownership versus unhealthy over-functioning 

➡️ How setting boundaries strengthens leadership credibility 

➡️ Why women often carry responsibility for outcomes they don't control 

➡️ The importance of identifying work that energizes you 

➡️ How the Six Working Geniuses framework can improve career alignment

Eric also shares practical strategies for having difficult conversations, setting boundaries with confidence, and creating more sustainable success at work.

🔗 Connect with Eric: https://ericdingler.com

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

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Can I ask you a question?

Think about the last meeting you attended.

Not the agenda.

Not the action items.

You.

How did you show up?

Did you contribute your perspective?

Or did you leave thinking about everything you wish you had said?

In this episode, Shannon explores one of the most overlooked opportunities for career growth: the everyday meetings already on your calendar.

Because meetings aren't just where work gets discussed.

They're where leadership gets observed.

In this episode, you'll learn:
✔️ Why meetings shape your leadership reputation
✔️ The small habits that quietly make women less visible
✔️ Why overthinking keeps great ideas from being heard
✔️ The difference between being helpful and being influential
✔️ How apologizing before speaking weakens your message
✔️ Why you don't need perfect ideas before contributing
✔️ How to reclaim your place after being interrupted
✔️ Why leadership is built through repeated experiences, not one big presentation
✔️ A simple strategy to help you show up more intentionally in every meeting

If you've ever walked out of a meeting replaying everything you said, this episode is for you.

Because becoming impossible to overlook doesn't happen through one extraordinary moment.

It happens through dozens of ordinary ones.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
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✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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Many women become the person everyone depends on at work.

They solve problems.
Smooth conflict.
Support teammates.
Take on extra responsibilities.
Keep everything running.

But despite being incredibly valuable, many of those same women find themselves asking:

"Why am I not getting promoted?"

In this episode, Shannon sits down with leadership strategist, executive coach, and author Nicole Johnston to discuss the hidden career trap many women fall into: becoming indispensable without becoming promotable.

Drawing on more than three decades of leadership experience with organizations including Procter & Gamble, Hershey, and Kimberly-Clark, Nicole explains why so much of the work women perform is necessary, but not always recognized as leadership.

In this episode:
✔️ What "non-promotable work" actually is
✔️ Why women disproportionately carry emotional and mental load at work
✔️ The hidden career cost of always being the helper
✔️ Why promotions are based on leadership potential, not task completion
✔️ How to set boundaries without damaging relationships
✔️ Why every professional needs an "At-A-Girl Folder"
✔️ How documenting accomplishments protects your career
✔️ Practical ways to increase leadership visibility

Nicole also shares one simple action every listener can take this week that can immediately improve future promotion conversations.

🔗 Connect with Nicole Johnston

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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If your manager asked you to describe your biggest accomplishments this year...

Could you do it without feeling uncomfortable?

For many high-performing women, that's harder than it should be.

Not because they haven't accomplished incredible things.

Because somewhere along the way they learned that talking about their accomplishments might sound like bragging.

In this episode, Shannon explores one of the biggest career myths holding women back and offers a new way to think about communicating your value.

Because here's what she wants every woman to understand:

Talking about your value isn't bragging.

It's leadership communication.

In this episode, you'll learn:
✅ Why so many women minimize their accomplishments
✅ The difference between humility and invisibility
✅ Why leaders can't advocate for value they don't clearly understand
✅ How to communicate your impact without making it all about you
✅ Why promotion conversations often happen when you're not in the room
✅ How feedback can become evidence of your leadership
✅ Why confidence grows through practice, not before it
✅ A simple weekly exercise to help you start thinking in terms of value instead of activity

If you've ever worried that speaking about your accomplishments would make you sound arrogant, this episode offers a perspective that could completely change how you think about career growth.

Because your goal isn't to convince people you're valuable.

It's to help leadership recognize the value you already create.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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Why do so many capable, successful professionals end up feeling exhausted, disconnected, and emotionally drained by careers that look great on paper?

In this episode, Shannon speaks with career strategist and psychology expert Miriam Groom about burnout, over-functioning, identity, and the hidden patterns that keep many high-performing women stuck in careers that no longer align with who they truly are.

After experiencing burnout herself while working across family business leadership, Fortune 500 environments, and one of the Big Four consulting firms, Miriam began questioning why traditional career advice often fails highly capable professionals.

Her search for answers led her into psychology, psychometrics, behavioral profiling, and career strategy, where she discovered something powerful:

Burnout is often not just about doing too much.

It’s about spending too much time disconnected from your natural strengths, interests, and authentic wiring.

In this episode, we discuss: 
✅ Why high-performing women often overwork psychologically, not just physically 
✅ How people become disconnected from their authentic selves 
✅ Why saying “yes” to everything creates long-term burnout 
✅ The connection between natural strengths, flow state, and fulfillment 
✅ Why many professionals are operating from developed skills instead of natural gifts 
✅ How childhood experiences often reveal authentic strengths and interests 
✅ Why burnout is frequently tied to misalignment, not laziness 
✅ Small ways to reconnect with yourself after burnout

Miriam also shares practical tools for self-discovery, including journaling practices, psychometric assessments, and reflection exercises designed to help professionals reconnect with who they truly are.

🔗 Connect with Miriam Groom

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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If you stopped doing everything you quietly do behind the scenes tomorrow...

Who would notice?

Now here's the harder question.

Would the people making promotion decisions know that was the value you were creating?

That's the conversation we're having today.

In this episode, Shannon explores why so many high-performing women become indispensable to their teams while still feeling invisible when promotion opportunities arise.

If you've ever found yourself thinking:
"What else do I have to do?"

This episode is for you.

You'll discover:
✔ Why being indispensable isn't the same as being promotable
✔ The difference between performance and positioning
✔ Why many women become known for being helpful instead of strategic
✔ The hidden gap between creating value and being recognized for it
✔ Why workplace reputation matters more than most professionals realize
✔ How your natural leadership strengths can become your biggest blind spot
✔ Why promotions happen when decision-makers clearly understand your impact
✔ A simple exercise to help you identify whether your value is visible

Most importantly, Shannon shares why becoming impossible to overlook has nothing to do with becoming louder.

It starts by helping leadership recognize the value you already create.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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